Whimsical.nu

Welcome to a Whimsical Blog~

Hi, I'm Angela, a girl with a blog on five different psyches:
girl, geek, reader, writer, gamer
Choose your poison ♥

Hello world!

Welcome to Whimsical.Nu! I’ve long been itching to do something new, and considering my rather lackluster involvement in anything hobbyistic online recently, I’ve decided to pretty much change everything up. The best result of this is a new domain, and something that I feel closely matches a large part of who I am. ;)

As a result, Whimsical will be my personal blog where I attempt to reconcile different parts of who I am: the geek who is in love with Web and tech, the reader who loves getting lost in books, the writer who is still trying to be courageous enough to dare to write, and the gamer who loves both casual games and RPGs.

This change does come with a cost, however; a number of my websites will soon be retiring, or taking a significant backseat.

  1. Scripts.Indisguise.Org will return to its “roots”; it will be back to a script archive, and scripts will move to an “as is” stage. This is one of the saddest changes I’ll be doing; I don’t know when (or even if) I’ll come back to linkware scriptwriting. Entries have been moved over; comments are closed on these entries.
  2. Seasonal Plume will also take a backseat, and will be “shut down” with a link back to here. I won’t be letting it go (ah, the memories!) but until I figure out what to do with it, it will be… well, existing. Entries have been moved over here, but comments are closed.

Naturally, you can still see me over at my personal journal. The difference between that journal and this blog lies in precisely how they’re called; the journal is writing for myself but to an audience, and this blog is writing for an audience.

I realize that this change may concern a number of you who are interested in Indiscripts and/or Enthusiast. I’d like to go into more detail on what may happen to both, but it will need to be for some other time. Please check back sometime!

As for new things, I’ve added a “Gamer” category. At the moment there is nothing there (hee), but for a while now I’ve been sucked into playing World of Warcraft, which I have been studiously avoiding ever since it went out. Being a bit of a gamer back in college, I just knew it would take up a lot of my time if I started. WOW isn’t the only thing I play, although it’s the only patently “gamer”-esque game I play. My iPhone has three pages full of games, and I’ve deleted about half of the ones I’ve played. ;)

Well, so that’s the new Whimsical blog, please excuse any exposed plumbing you come across while I continue to do a bit of spring cleaning! It can’t help to tell me about it, as well. I’ll get everything scrubbed and polished soon enough. ;)

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The Survey for People Who Make Websites

A List Apart has another survey for people in the web industry, specifically for people who make websites. Last year, they launched a similar survey, focusing on finding out common job titles, salaries, and work situations in the field; and this year’s survey aims to correct mistakes in the one made last year:

This year’s survey corrects many of last year’s mistakes, with more detailed and numerous questions for freelance contractors and owners of (or partners in) small web businesses. There are also better international categories, and many other improvements recommended by those who took the survey last year.

I took it. Have you taken it already?

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Shelfari (et al) Gripes

I created an account on Shelfari a while back, but never really got into using it. Just today I decided to revisit it, to see a lot of really nifty improvements, both in the look and feel and with the feature set. I love that you can segregate books according to once you plan to read, are reading, and have already read — plus you can specify if it’s a favorite, if it’s a wishlist item, and/or if you own it.

The last few meta information that the collect is fabulous. I’ll admit I haven’t frequented a lot of book library sites (because it’s always frustrated me at some point) but this last bit was something I was looking for in these types of sites for a long time. I don’t necessarily have all the books I’ve read, after all. A lot of my books are kind of co-owned with my sister. Having these options made me go into a book-adding frenzy.

Until I got frustrated because the editions I wanted weren’t exactly there, did not have the right title, and/or did not have the right cover. For example, I have The Gunslinger put up as The Dark Tower, even though it’s obviously not — it’s only part one of The Dark Tower series, people!

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m nitpicky enough to need them to list it correctly, and to get annoyed that I can’t get the right entries. I had the same problem with the books from The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a travesty! I now don’t have Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Prince Caspian in my shelf precisely because of this. Not to mention, the books in my shelf aren’t all from one edition! It’s annoying, really annoying.

What online book library sites do you use? Is there something better than this, that maybe I just haven’t explored enough? Or should I just roll my own?

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